You might want to consider Gabbard some crackpot on the left, but you should remember that she’s a Gulf War veteran. She also sits on the House Foreign Relations Committee. In other words, she’s not the caricature of the lefty.

Her stance will guarantee her a national media spotlight that almost certainly will lead to a run at the White House. That is, unless it becomes clear that Assad did order the attack, in which case any further political ambitions she might hold will be gone.